The Disneyland measles outbreak has drawn attention to the number of people in this country who choose not to vaccinate their children. Samuel Katz, MD, co-creator of the measles vaccine and chairman emeritus of pediatrics at Duke, remembers how the fear of the vaccine all started.

First contracting human muscle grown in laboratory - Clinicians at Duke Medicine—including Dwight Koeberl, associate professor of pediatrics—are already working on a study to try to correlate efficacy of drugs in patients with the effects on lab-grown muscles.